³⁰And when the next day was come, Moses spoke to the people: You have sinned a very great sin: I will go up to the Lord, if by any means I may be able to entreat him for your crime.

³¹And returning to the Lord, he said: I beseech thee: this people hath sinned a heinous sin, and they have made to themselves gods of gold: either forgive them this trespass,

³²Or if thou do not, strike me out of the book that thou hast written.

³³And the Lord answered him: He that hath sinned against me, him will I strike out of my book:

³⁴But go thou, and lead this people whither I have told thee: my angel shall go before thee. And I in the day of revenge will visit this sin also of theirs.

³⁵The Lord therefore struck the people for the guilt, on occasion of the calf which Aaron had made.

Chapter 33

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Go, get thee up from this place, thou and thy people which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, into the land concerning which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying: To thy seed I will give it:

²And I will send an angel before thee, that I may cast out the Chanaanite, and the Amorrhite, and the Hethite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite,

³That thou mayst enter into the land that floweth with milk and honey. For I will not go up with thee, because thou art a stiffnecked people; lest I destroy thee in the way.

⁴And the people hearing these very bad tidings, mourned: and no man put on his ornaments according to custom.

⁵And the Lord said to Moses: Say to the children of Israel: Thou art a stiffnecked people, once I shall come up in the midst of thee, and shall destroy thee. Now presently lay aside thy ornaments, that I may know what to do to thee.

⁶So the children of Israel laid aside their ornaments by Mount Horeb.

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Exodus 32:33: But the Lord said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me, I will blot out of my book.

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